Diacritics not ingoren in Finder Views + Autocomplete

Thanks for the answer!

Well, the diacritics are all those funny symbols above letters that modify their pronunciation. It's not a big deal for Modern English, as there are very few of those in use (naïve perhaps), but for many other languages or for older stages of English, these are rather important. My site is a dictionary of Old English, you can check the behaviour there: http://www.bosworthtoller.com

The usual approach of search engines is to simply ignore the diacritics, because it is difficult to type on English keyboard layouts, so many people just type without it, or in some languages the diacritics are only optional in writing, so it is difficult for the user to be sure what to search for. I agree that these are essentially different strings, but the standard and more convenient approach seems to be to ignore this. Drupal search does that also, because it seems MySQL indexer does that. Which is weird, because I though Finder uses the MySQL index as well...

Anyway, I added a CCK field to all my nodes, copied the title into it and stripped it of diacritics. Interestingly enough, the Finder now works fine - if you type "líc" it also autocompletes "lic". This however didn't seem to work the other way around while the search field had diacritics (typing "lic" didn't suggest "líc").

Both the Finder and the element search the start of the field. I guess this is not a terribly important issue, but it might be good to be aware of it :)

Here follows the Finder export:

array(
'finder_id' => '3',
'base' => 'views',
'title' => 'Search',
'description' => 'Uses view_finder to incorporate title_search values',
'path' => 'finder/3',
'block' => '1',
'settings' => array(
'form_on_page' => 0,
'form' => array(
'prefix' => '',
'prefix_format' => '4',
'suffix' => '',
'suffix_format' => '4',
'button_text' => 'Search',
'go_text' => 'Go',
),
'advanced' => array(
'no_results' => array(
'no_results' => 'There are no results to display',
),
'filter' => 0,
'submission' => 1,
'ahah' => 0,
'ahah_effect' => 'fade',
'element_combination' => '0',
'pager' => '25',
'match' => 'sw',
'goto' => 'best',
'hide_args' => 0,
'arg_sep' => ',',
'empty_symbol' => '',
'show_links' => 0,
'show_admin_links' => 0,
'cache_finder_find' => '60',
'search' => '1',
'search_tab' => 'node',
),
'views' => array(
'view' => 'view_finder',
'displays' => array(
'query' => 'default',
'output' => 'default',
),
'results' => '0',
'views_args' => array(
'args' => '',
'delimiter' => '/',
),
),
),
'elements' => array(
'0' => array(
'finder_element_id' => '3',
'finder_id' => '3',
'element' => 'autocomplete',
'title' => 'Search',
'weight' => '0',
'settings' => array(
'form' => array(
'description' => '',
'prefix' => '',
'prefix_format' => '4',
'suffix' => '',
'suffix_format' => '4',
'default_value' => '',
'required' => 0,
'field_prefix' => '',
'field_suffix' => '',
'maxlength' => '',
'size' => '28',
'max_suggestions' => '25',
'match' => 'sw',
'autosubmit' => 1,
),
'choices' => array(
'field' => array(
'node_data_field_title_search.field_title_search_value' => 'node_data_field_title_search.field_title_search_value',
),
'displays' => array(
'query' => 'default',
),
'views' => array(
'args' => '',
'delimiter' => '/',
),
),
'advanced' => array(
'delimit' => '',
'value_combination' => '0',
),
),
'element_handler' => array(
'#title' => 'Autocomplete textfield',
'#module' => 'finder_autocomplete',
),
'#_finder_object' => '1',
),
),
'elements_index' => array(
'3' => 0,
),
'base_handler' => array(
'#title' => 'Views finder',
'#module' => 'finder_views',
),
'admin_links' => array(
'finder/3' => 'View \"Path\"',
'admin/build/finder/3/edit' => 'Edit',
),
'links' => array(),
'#_finder_object' => '1',
)